Zelensky accuses Putin of genocide after 'massacre' of Bucha

Ukraine’s President has accused Russia of genocide.

Volodymyr Zelensky made the claims amid global outcry at the conduct of Vladimir Putin’s forces in a town near Kyiv.

Pictures of countless civilian victims lying dead in the streets of Bucha have horrified observers.

Their bodies are said to have been mutilated and booby-trapped, with the extent of the violence being unveiled as Russian troops retreated.

Asked about whether Russia’s conduct should be considered genocide, President Zelensky told CBS that it should be.

‘This is about the elimination of the whole nation and the people’, he said in an interview on Sunday with the ‘Face the Nation; news program.

Speaking through a translator, he added: ‘We are the citizens of Ukraine and we don’t want to be subdued to the policy of Russian Federation.

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‘This is the reason we are being destroyed and exterminated.

‘This is happening in the Europe of the 21st century so this is the torture of the whole nation.’

Meanwhile, Russia’s Defence Ministry has claimed all the photographs and footage related to Bucha are a ‘provocation’.

Moscow denied Ukrainian allegations that it had killed civilians in Bucha.

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